Apparently what the theatre people hate about Pence is his belief in conversion therapy. While I love Pence, I will agree with them (not on their disgusting display) on that one issue.
Sexual attraction is not something you can stop in your head. What turns a person on is not their conscious doing. And you can’t pray or psych that away.
Of course you can stop acting on it, as all people who are pedophiles should do. If I were a pedophile I would take hormones that would stop my sex drive completely because even fantasizing about harming children is abhorrent. (Except for the fantasizing of what I will do to her if my kid doesn’t learn where to leave her shoes... is that ok? Lol)
I don’t know exactly what Pence believes about gay conversion but I don’t think it works. It probably replaces the attraction with prayer. Maybe that is what happens with nuns and priests, not that I have any knowledge of such things.